Hey, if you like, you could also use the PidFile class of https://github.com/schlitzered/pep-3143-daemon. It only uses modules from the python standard library.
cheers stephan 2014-08-04 9:41 GMT+02:00 Thomas Spura <[email protected]>: > 2014-08-04 9:02 GMT+02:00 Ben Finney <[email protected]>: > > On 10-May-2012, Ben Finney wrote: >> >> > After ‘lockfile’ version 0.9 was released on PyPI, ‘python-daemon’ >> > version 1.6 was initially released to use it. But that version of >> > ‘lockfile’ was, according to its maintainer, never meant to be >> > released, and contained backward-incompatible changes. Soon >> > afterward, I reverted ‘python-daemon’ so that the previous version >> > (1.5.5) was the latest on PyPI. >> >> The issue remains unaddressed after the report was filed in 2010 >> <URL:https://code.google.com/p/pylockfile/issues/detail?id=4>. >> >> I understand the ‘lockfile’ library is effectively unmaintained; its >> latest lead developer has AFAIK not succeeded in finding a suitable >> successor, and has no interest in continuing maintenance of the >> project. >> >> So ‘python-daemon’ requirements for a lockfile implementation are in a >> kind of limbo: the current code base (with versions up to 1.6.1) >> recommends ‘lockfile’ 0.9, but this version doesn't work. So recent >> versions of ‘python-daemon’ are not advertised on PyPI. >> > > From the report above: > """ > > The official public releases are on PyPI. > > """ > > On PyPI is lockfile 0.9.1, which seems to work fine. > > >> >> The PyPI entry for ‘python-daemon’ does not advertise any version >> later than 1.5.5, which works only with lockfile 0.8 or earlier. >> >> Users of ‘python-daemon’: What lockfile implementation are you using? >> How are you getting it to work with the API? >> >> With ‘lockfile’ no longer suitable, what should be the recommended >> lockfile library for future releases of ‘python-daemon’? >> >> > I didn't check it, but it seems lockfile-0.9.1 seems to work fine with > python-daemon-1.6 and the tests pass. > > Why isn't python-daemon-1.6.1 listed as most recent version on PyPI? > > Greetings, > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > python-daemon-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-daemon-devel > >
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